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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="138" > [New Wisdom Yuan Introduction] The star figure of the code farming circle - Wang Yao, a computer genius who dropped out of school three times and was completely banned by Microsoft, every time he left a place, he posted a "denunciation", Tsinghua, Cornell, Indiana Bloomington, Google, Microsoft are undoubtedly recruited... He talked about it a lot, going from China to the United States and returning from the United States. So, is he a cynical arrogant genius? Or a mournful idealist? </h1>
If it is said that the mediocrity mentality of being easy-going is easy-going, then there must be some people who are partial to the lonely hero mentality.
This sentence is the most appropriate to put on Wang Yan.
He studied at Sichuan University, Tsinghua University, and later obtained doctoral admission letters from Tsinghua, Cornell University, and Indiana University Bloomington...
Seeing this, you may wonder, why does one's academic career go through so many schools?
The reason is simple – there is no successful graduation. The reason is even simpler, the education system of these schools makes him hate.
Perhaps a person who was "out of place" at school doomed him to a life of loneliness and pride. Even if the talented Wang Yan does not need a doctorate, getting offers from Google and Microsoft is a piece of cake, but the ending is the same: the hateful company system made him leave the table in anger, and then he was blacklisted by these companies - never hired.
If geniuses are destined to be arrogant, then is Wang Yan a person's heroism, or is it a tragedy of "unsociable" under the system of the times?
It all started with Wang Yan's 17,000-word "The Crushing of Tsinghua Dreams" in 2005.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="137" > gave up 3 phDs from top universities on its own, and the 1.7w character Tsinghua dream was shattered</h1>
In 2005, a lot of things happened at Tsinghua University, such as the establishment of the famous "Yao Class", the predecessor of the "Software Science Experimental Class"...
For example, a 17,000-word "The Crushing of Tsinghua Dreams" is on fire on the Internet...
The author of this article is named Wang Yan, a young man in the computer department.
After graduating from Sichuan University with a bachelor's degree in 97, he was sent to Tsinghua University, mainly to conduct research on integrated circuit wiring algorithms. Even, I got a place for a direct doctorate.
During this time, he became famous for his article "Working Entirely with GNU/Linux" and his promotion of TeX as "amateur stuff that is not a research result".
https://dywang.csie.cyut.edu.tw/dywang/download/pdf/linux-wangyin.pdf
But what really made him "famous" was this accusation.
With only one year to go before graduating with a ph.D., Wang Applied for withdrawal and wrote out more than 17,000 words of the "Application for Withdrawal" (titled The Crushing of Tsinghua Dream) and published it online.
From "The Birth of Tsinghua Dream" to "Farewell to Tsinghua's Doctorate", from childhood yearning for Tsinghua, to "Doctorate, how many young Chinese!" Wang Yan mentioned a lot of inner feelings.
He wrote, "There are so many beautiful things in the world waiting for me to learn and develop, but I was sentenced to 5 years in Tsinghua like a prisoner." Now that I am tired of the so-called academics in China, I am ready to give up my Ph.D. at Tsinghua University and go abroad for real research."
But I have to admit that Wang Yu's computer talent. In 2005, he was the first author of the best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM Asia and South acific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2005).
Perhaps in his view, the domestic education system has shackled his thinking, and in order to break free of the cage, he wants to drop out of school to see the world at the cost of giving up his doctorate.
For a time, the public opinion circles rejected the hot discussion of the education system and idealism.
In the voice of domestic public opinion, Wang Yu packed his bags and flew to another country of education, the United States.
"I am ready to give up my Ph.D. at Tsinghua University and go abroad to find a good teacher and conduct real research."
Just when he was full of ambition and was admitted to Cornell University, the top computer university in the United States, the disappointment struck again.
As a result, "Education in the United States is a commercial test-taking education, foreign graduate students are basically cheap labor for tutors, and the environment for 'real research' is difficult to exist." Such statements appeared again in his remarks.
He bid farewell to Cornell University and was admitted to Indiana University Bloomington to pursue his Ph.D. studies.
Finally, his doctoral career came to an end in a "Farewell to a Doctorate" curse on the Indiana University education system.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="136" > had an unpleasant quarrel with Google's boss and was later banned by Microsoft worldwide</h1>
Academics are not ideal, and the situation is similar in the workplace.
Wang yan has been an intern at Google twice, each for 4 months. At one point, he worked on an important project, a cross-language "service-as-a-service" programming tool, a tool that searches all of Google's internal project code, with Wang in charge of the Python search. Google today is also said to be running the project.
His boss at Google, Steve Yegge, commented after his internship: "Wang is one of the smartest engineers I know. His internship program at Google is the most advanced technology I've seen in my 20 years of internship work to date. He's going to continue to do great things." （Yin's one of the smartest engineers I know. His intern project at Google was by far the most technologically advanced I've seen in 20 years of working with interns. He's going to go on to do great things.）
However, loneliness and pride are carved into the bones.
Wang Yan, who did not even read a doctorate, got into trouble with Google's internal managers and eventually left his job.
After leaving Google, he went to Microsoft again, and as a result, when he left, he made a lot of noise, so angry that Microsoft issued a "ban order" and banned all subsidiaries from cooperating with Wang Yuan.
In 2019, Wang Yan also applied for Intel, and there is also news that he went to interview Ali after returning to China, but in the end there was little news.
Recently, there are also anecdotal rumors that Wang Yan may join Huawei, but it is only market news.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="87" > What kind of talent are you? </h1>
Controversy aside, Wang Yan is a person who likes to narrate life. The blogs are dazzling.
In addition to those blog posts complaining about the education system, after an internship at Google ended in 2012, he published "Wang Yan: My Story with Google".
In February 2014, he published "Psychological Diseases of Programmers", which believes that there are psychological diseases in the programmer group.
He is also a person who likes to talk about technology.
In March 2013, he published "On "P=NP?" and said that "this problem does not actually exist, it does not need to be solved at all".
In November 2013, he published "What's wrong with Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming", which denounced the shortcomings of object programming and functional programming.
However, because Wang Yan has published several "leave" decisions, he was laughed at by netizens that "the earth can't fit him".
But there are not a few netizens who appreciate this outspoken behavior:
In fact, in recent years, the topic of doctors has not been interrupted.
Not long ago, the "acknowledgment" of a doctoral dissertation made many netizens tear up after reading it.
Huang Guoping, a doctor of engineering from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, recalled in the acknowledgment part of his graduation thesis that he grew up in a small mountain village, studied all the way, experienced hardships, fought against fate, and finally "choked the throat of fate" and reached the peak of scholarship - doctorate.
"It takes two and a half hours to get to the county seat by bus from home, and I've been looking forward to getting out of the mountains. I can't remember how many times I felt like I couldn't carry it because of the pressure of reality."
"When I was in class, I was often called out of the classroom by the teacher because I was in arrears with the tuition fee. Wet class on a rainy day, maybe the back of the ass is still mud. Walking on a hot road barefoot in the summer. Shivering in his worn-out clothes in winter, he walked through the long aisle collar notebook. These could all be the last straw that crushed the camel's back. If it weren't for the fact that I could often receive a prize from the podium after the exam, and by the way, I could have posted a wall of awards to satisfy the final vanity, I might have given up long ago."
Unlike Wang, Huang Guoping has gone to Tencent to work as a senior researcher in the Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Here, the editors do not want to favor any one point of view, because people coexist with idealism and realism. There are two kinds of "proud sons of heaven" in the world, one is to love their own career and strive unremittingly to succeed; the other is to be a person in temperament, under the guidance of the spirit and soul.
But if there is only one kind of heroism in the world, it must be as Romain Rolland said - to love life after knowing the truth of life.
Resources:
https://www.163.com/dy/article/GAS3OTRN0528RTDH.html?f=post2020_dy_recommends
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/89829978
https://www.zhihu.com/question/20102511
https://blog.csdn.net/u012717411/article/details/46787787
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